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It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

Rachel Cusk

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Challenges
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Feminist
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If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She wants to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that ­others are demanding to be given it back - to be taught - is disturbing.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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